Fence-joining device.



No. 747,051. A PATBNTBD DEG. 15, 190s. s. M. BRAKE.

FENCE JOINING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22. 1903. N0 MODEL.

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"llrrirnn @rattles Patented December 15, 1903.

SAMUEL M. DRAKE, OF ELIVIA, IOWA.

FENCEWJOINING DlEVlCl-I.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 747,05Ldated December 15, 1903.

Application lcd August 22, 1903. Serial Ne 170,503. (No model.)

T0 (LM whom t nwty concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. BRAKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elma, in'the county of Howard and State of Iowa,- have invented a new and useful Fence-Join ing Device, of which the following is a specification. l

This invention relates to devices employed for joining stay-wires to the strand-wires in fence construction, and has for its object to produce a simple device whereby the cost of construction is reduced, the efiiciency increased, and time and labor likewise decreased; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claim.

In the drawings illustrative of the inven-Y tion, in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a section of fence in course ofconstruction, illustrating the im proved devices applied. Fig. 2 is a side view of the supporting-standard. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail of the Weaving-needle. Fig. 4 is an enlarged side view of a portion of the supporting-standard and one of the strandswire-supporting blocks.

The improved device is designed to assist in joining the transverse stay-wires to the longitudinal strand-wires of wire fences, and in the drawingsillustrative of the embodiment of the invention a Vplurality of the strand-wires are represented at 10 connected to posts 11 by staples 12 or other suitable means. The strand-wires are spaced apart, as shown, and generally placed closely together near the ground 13 to exclude the smaller animals.

Fences of this class are supplied at suitable intervals by stay-wires 14, entwisted, as at 15, with the lstrand-wires, and to thus secure the stay-Wires to the strand-wires is the object of the present invention, which consists of a standard 16, having a bearing-wheel 17, mounted for rotation and running upon the ground 13, and a carrier-wheel or pulley 18, preferably grooved and mounted for rotation and adapted to run upon'the upper strand-wire10,as shown. Attached to one face of the standard 16 and spacedV apart to correspond to the strand-wires are bearing-blocks wires relative to the blocks and standard.

This standard and its attachments form one part of the improved device and a weaving implement forms the other part, the latter consisting of a tubular member 21, reduced at one end, as at 22, and with a longitudinal cleft 23 in the opposite sides of the reduced end. Passing through the reduced end is a clamp-bolt 24, whereby the two parts at the opposite sides of the clefts may be compressed to reduce the aperture of the member 21 at the reduced end. The metal of the member`21 will be sufficiently resilient to expand when the `pressure of the bolt is removed, by which means the aperture may be readily adjusted to fit different-sized. wires. By this means any desired tension may be imparted to the wire as it feeds through the needle member and without bending the Wire.

In operating the device, the strand-wires having been first strained and attached to the posts, the standard 16 is set in position at the point where the first stay is to be located, and the latter being first cut to the proper length is threaded through the needle member 21 and the clamp-screw24 adjusted to exert the proper tension upon the wire. One end of the stay-wire is then looped around the lowermost strand-wire which is stretched over the lower block 19, and the needle member is turned substantially parallel to and rotated around the strand-wire as many times as may be required, the smaller end of the needle member being held as close to block 19 as possible. By this means the stay-wire is quickly and easily coiled tightly around the strand-wires with as many coils as may be required, and when thus attached to the lower strand-wire the needle member is drawn longitudinally of the stay-wire and the latter passed over the next block and the stay-wire coiled around the second strand-wire, and so on until thus attached to all the strand-wires of the fence. Thus the stay-wires may be quickly and securely connected and with as many turns at each joint and as tightly as may be required, as the tension of the member 24 determines the tightness of the coils.

The whole device is very simple, can be l'OO cheaply constructed, and can be operated by any farmer or by persons Without previous skill or knowledge.

The member 16 may be of Wood of sufficient size and quality to resist the strains and the other parts of metal.

The blocks 19 may be adjustably connected to the member 16 to adapt them to variations in the spacings of the strand-wires. 1

This improved device may be used to weave from either the right or left side of the standard with equal facility.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is In a device of the character described, a

fence-stay-weaving implement-,consisting of a tubular member reduced at one end and with longitudinal clefts at the reduced end, and a clamp-bolt disposed to adjust the cleft end transversely, whereby the implement may be adapted to different-sized Wires, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL M. DRAKE.

Witnesses:

LYMAN F. WEBSTER, ALONZO W. SHUFELT. 

